Election portends four more years of worry

Published: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 08:00 AM.

The nation may not be salvageable. Democracy requires constant vigilance. It also requires a free press. The mainstream media’s complicity with a single point of view has done the deed. It being in lock-step with the indoctrination taught in public schools since the Engel v. Vitale decision before the Supreme Court (50 years ago this year) toward secular humanism and away from traditional American values, has so destabilized the ship of state that, like the Titanic, we may rest, forgotten, on the floor of history.

Perhaps this is the time (albeit a little late) to ask why it is that this year the IRS got its own SWAT team. Taken together with the fact that the chief justice of the Supreme Court said he would uphold Obamacare as a tax, this seems ominous. You might recall that Wesley Snipes was arrested and got three years for tax evasion. So I ask, do you really think you can afford the tax imposed to fund Obamacare? Does jail sound good to you? Is this the “Hope and Change” you voted for?

Tomorrow will tell! If we see a horror show unfold in the next four years, then we will know the truth.

JOHN REX Panama City Beach

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Many of us are very disappointed with this election, but it will not be the end of all things good to us. We can trust in the fact that our party will make the appropriate changes to win the next time.

You all realize that some major cuts must be made in the least popular areas (Medicare, Medicaid, the military, etc.) and taxes will increase in the effort to reduce the deficit. Maybe the administration in charge when these cuts and tax increases take place will be blamed and will have to take the negative consequences.

So let’s all stay positive and be careful not to let this election drive a wedge between you and your family, friends and neighbors who see politics in a different way. After all, this is America, and the right to vote for who we feel best about, with a majority winning the decision, is what our Constitution guarantees us — and what makes America great.

DAVID HODGENS Parker

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Please believe me, I honestly hope I am proved wrong. But I believe that once the approximately 21 new taxes are enforced at the beginning of 2013, the prices of gas, food, housing and other necessaries rise, thousands of American jobs are lost, and when Obamacare is fully enforced many older Americans’ health care will be severely rationed in order to keep expenses down, Americans will begin to regret they voted Obama as our president for four more years.

The nation may not be salvageable. Democracy requires constant vigilance. It also requires a free press. The mainstream media’s complicity with a single point of view has done the deed. It being in lock-step with the indoctrination taught in public schools since the Engel v. Vitale decision before the Supreme Court (50 years ago this year) toward secular humanism and away from traditional American values, has so destabilized the ship of state that, like the Titanic, we may rest, forgotten, on the floor of history.

Perhaps this is the time (albeit a little late) to ask why it is that this year the IRS got its own SWAT team. Taken together with the fact that the chief justice of the Supreme Court said he would uphold Obamacare as a tax, this seems ominous. You might recall that Wesley Snipes was arrested and got three years for tax evasion. So I ask, do you really think you can afford the tax imposed to fund Obamacare? Does jail sound good to you? Is this the “Hope and Change” you voted for?

Tomorrow will tell! If we see a horror show unfold in the next four years, then we will know the truth.

JOHN REX
Panama City Beach

● ● ●

Many of us are very disappointed with this election, but it will not be the end of all things good to us. We can trust in the fact that our party will make the appropriate changes to win the next time.

You all realize that some major cuts must be made in the least popular areas (Medicare, Medicaid, the military, etc.) and taxes will increase in the effort to reduce the deficit. Maybe the administration in charge when these cuts and tax increases take place will be blamed and will have to take the negative consequences.

So let’s all stay positive and be careful not to let this election drive a wedge between you and your family, friends and neighbors who see politics in a different way. After all, this is America, and the right to vote for who we feel best about, with a majority winning the decision, is what our Constitution guarantees us — and what makes America great.

DAVID HODGENS
Parker

● ● ●

Please believe me, I honestly hope I am proved wrong. But I believe that once the approximately 21 new taxes are enforced at the beginning of 2013, the prices of gas, food, housing and other necessaries rise, thousands of American jobs are lost, and when Obamacare is fully enforced many older Americans’ health care will be severely rationed in order to keep expenses down, Americans will begin to regret they voted Obama as our president for four more years.